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Sword of Sinew and Steel

· Artifact — Equipment · Modern Horizons (MH1)

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Times Brought

355

Decks Running

126

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

Card text

Sword of Sinew and Steel

Artifact — Equipment

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from black and from red. Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, destroy up to one target planeswalker and up to one target artifact. Equip {2}

Modern Horizons (MH1) · Mythic · Illustrated by Chris Rahn

Final zone distribution

69 instances

2.9%

Library

59.4%

Battlefield

4.3%

Graveyard

1.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Cloud, Midgar Mercenary 12 decks
2 Captain America, First Avenger 7 decks
3 Syr Gwyn, Hero of Ashvale 6 decks
4 Arna Kennerüd, Skycaptain 5 decks
5 Kotis, the Fangkeeper 5 decks
6 Leonardo, the Balance 5 decks
7 Ekthi, Contaminator Priest 4 decks
8 Tony Stark // The Invincible Iron Man 4 decks
9 Balan, Wandering Knight 3 decks
10 Dark Leo & Shredder 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

355 brought · 119 players

Brought to game

355

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 87% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.

≥ -10.0pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=36) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=204).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 22% (n=16).

Read this as correlation, not as the card's contribution. Casting a card means you lived long enough to cast it, so this gap widens with mana value across every card we track.

Observed gap -1.1pp; 95% confidence interval -10.0pp to +7.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=47

15%

32%

30%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 4 · P75 6 · max 13

On curve 21% (7 / 47 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 34%

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games, and the full charts need a sample of at least 25 observed games that is not dominated by a single pilot. Until this card clears those bars you're seeing only the basic counts. Stats refresh nightly.

How is Playgroup Live card data collected?

Players using Playgroup Live import their decklists before a game and log card actions as they play. Each cast, zone change, and resolution is recorded as a real game event. Stats on this site are computed from those events, not from decklist scrapes or theorycrafting. Playgroup has recorded 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.